core.fsyncmethod: add writeout-only mode
This commit introduces the `core.fsyncMethod` configuration knob, which can currently be set to `fsync` or `writeout-only`. The new writeout-only mode attempts to tell the operating system to flush its in-memory page cache to the storage hardware without issuing a CACHE_FLUSH command to the storage controller. Writeout-only fsync is significantly faster than a vanilla fsync on common hardware, since data is written to a disk-side cache rather than all the way to a durable medium. Later changes in this patch series will take advantage of this primitive to implement batching of hardware flushes. When git_fsync is called with FSYNC_WRITEOUT_ONLY, it may fail and the caller is expected to do an ordinary fsync as needed. On Apple platforms, the fsync system call does not issue a CACHE_FLUSH directive to the storage controller. This change updates fsync to do fcntl(F_FULLFSYNC) to make fsync actually durable. We maintain parity with existing behavior on Apple platforms by setting the default value of the new core.fsyncMethod option. Signed-off-by: Neeraj Singh <neerajsi@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -995,6 +995,13 @@ extern char *git_replace_ref_base;
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extern int fsync_object_files;
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extern int use_fsync;
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enum fsync_method {
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FSYNC_METHOD_FSYNC,
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FSYNC_METHOD_WRITEOUT_ONLY
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};
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extern enum fsync_method fsync_method;
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extern int core_preload_index;
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extern int precomposed_unicode;
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extern int protect_hfs;
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